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Samstag, 23. Mai 2009

Colouring faces with water soluble pens and Twinkling H2Os

Happy weekend to all of you!! I promised you ages ago to show how I colour faces with my technique. And today I will keep this promise :)As most of you might already know I use water soluble pens from a company called Caran D'Ache(I have Supracolors, but Prismalos are equally valuable) for the base colouration of my images. For more intensity and shading, I also use Twinkling H2Os.I stamp my images with StazOn jet black ink (which is water-resistant) on 300g watercolour paper from a company called Canson. It is a very thick, textured paper, with a strong surface. This way it doesn't rub off too easily if you go over the same spot with your waterbrush multiple times. Good quality paper is very important for this technique.

It is really easy and you don't need a lot of different colours for faces and other undressed body parts. I use 051 Salmon Supracolor pen, Poppy Red (Twinkling H2O), a watertank brush and tissue paper to rub off colour from my brush. The image is Whiff of Joy's Maid Charlotte from the medieval collection.

Now I use my watertankbrush to dispense the colour with small rotating motions. Try to always go from the darker to the lighter areas to get a good shading. If you have too much colour on your brush or if it is too wet, simply stroke it off on your tissue paper. Don't stop for too long, otherwise you will get ugly water stains.

Now it is time for the little shimmery Twinkling H2O pot. I love Poppy Red, but you shouldn't take too much. Otherwise your girl will look sunburnt :) I dip into the Twinkling pot with my brush, just a little bit, and colour her cheeks. I then stroke off the brush on tissue paper immediately and only dispense the colour left on the paper.

I continue with the second cheek. You can repeat this as often as you like to achieve the colour intensity that you want. In the end, I add some more colour directly on the cheeks, only trying to blend the outer parts of the cheeks and not to move over the center with the brush anymore. This way the cheeks stay very intense and rosy.

Kommentare:

Thanks so much for this Katharina!! I just got poppy red and will have to definitely try this out!! I just got really into the h2o's and love coloring with them but need more practice!! Thanks again for the tips!!Have a great week-end:)Kathy

Katharina thank you so much for the wonderful tutorial! I just got a bunch of Tinkling H2Os and was wondering how to use them all! :) I can't wait to practice this technique now! Thanks so much for sharing with us! You are the greatest! Hope you are enjoying your weekend hun!Hugs~ Kim

Great tutorial Katharina, I know where I'm going wrong now, not enough layers I was trying to do it in two and the tip about the paper was very helpfull thanks for sharing with us, I'm off to practice, enjoy your Goddaughters baptism.Debs

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